Ok...this is gettin' good. 143lbs this morning. I was thinking I'd be at around 145lbs if I worked my program diligently, but ....143? awesome!

I think I am overestimating my food calorie intake. My daily intake for the past month, according to my Bodybugg info, is right at 1180 a day - though some days I eat 400 calories and some days I eat 2300. It balances out over time to 1180 per day which is what all the boring old diet books say is the lowest amount to eat and still be somewhat safe. My daily calorie burn averages out to about 2000 a day. I think, according to my food log and calorie burn, I should be around 148lbs instead of 143, so that's why I think I'm overestimating the calories I get. Most of the food  I eat is listed in the Bodybugg system, but I think I make mistakes when it comes to estimating the caloric values of the STRANGE food I make for myself, like seitan or Kale/tofu stirfry. I try to be accurate, but I am VERY afraid of underestimating the calories and thus, sabotaging my weight loss efforts, so I OVERestimate calories. It's all good. I feel great. My stomach is much flatter (though it's not FLAT by any means yet!). I woke up this morning, put my hands on my almost-normal-feeling stomach and smiled. I was hungry, but I felt SKINNY. I thought, "huh, I feel really small today - I wonder if I have lost some more weight!"

sho nuff!

I exercise everyday, but some days it's only a 20 minute walk. Like my caloric intake, my caloric expenditure varies wildly from day to day. Some days I burn 1700 calories and others, I burn 2500 calories. Zumba is a FABulous calorie burner, as is aerobic kick-boxing. I burn 370 calories for 45 minutes of zumba, and 570 for an hour of aerobic kickboxing. Yoga, alas, only burned 170 calories in an hour. One instructor said that yoga could burn 500 calories in an hour. Well, maybe certain styles or types of yoga, but not MY class.

I jog a mile and a half and that burns only 75 calories. Still, it ALL counts, and that's one of the best things I have learned from this Bodybugg thing on my arm...it ALL counts. even the exercise that isn't hard, like walking. Thus, I'm inclined to walk more, dance more, play with the dogs more, and it all adds up to weight loss -Just like I've been reading in books and magazines for 30 years.